Barack Obama once dressed up as a pirate. (That's him, on the left.) These days, though, he's older and wiser, so tonight he'll dress up as a pumpkin instead. As what are you dressing up tonight? Not a bad imitation of Sarah Palin, hopefully. Or maybe you are British and will stay at home, in your normal clothes.
John McCain will be on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Is this the early-November surprise? In the past, don't forget, he has performed a Barbra Streisand medley on the show. Could that be what the undecideds have been waiting for? [Associated Press]
Hillary Clinton's former spokesman, Phil Singer, regrets that her campaign was so unremittingly obnoxious to the press. "I yelled at more reporters than I ever dreamed I'd yell at," he says. "Honestly, I deeply regret it because not only was it wrong, but it got in the way, it made me less effective." [Politics Magazine]
Slate founder Michael Kinsley almost didn't have his vote counted because the signature on his postal ballot didn't match that on his registration -- a little-known requirement that could cost some people their votes. [Seattle Weekly]
An inspiring get-out-the-vote video from Ohio. [Ezra Klein]
A big Washington Post profile of John McCain's "chief loyalist" and alter ego, Mark Salter, the man who has been instrumental in crafting the senator's image, and who's now in a dark, exhausted mood about what he perceives as having been across-the-board pro-Obama media bias for the duration of the campaign. [Washington Post]
